Got a few posts building up in me and while I'm getting all caught up in drafting them... the weeks are going by. So forgive the slight incongruity here - but I need to quickly put up a couple of thoughts and 'shares'.
As some of you know for the past few years - and stemming out of my public school teaching experience with ALATetc and Art for Progress - I've been working in a volunteer capacity to create educational art workshops/community projects with a couple of organizations; namely CITYarts, Studio 174, and INSCAPE Foundation. It's all been a bit slow, but the relationships built have been steady and consistently inspiring. My 'fave orgs' you see listed always in the sidebar is a record of my alliances thus far, and new to the list is Save Our Jamaica - founded by a most passionate soul and loyal Jamrocker - Raxann Chin.
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| foto by SeBiArt |
Raxann and I have partnered in deep conversation and intention to merge our efforts where ever needed to compliment/assist groups we are individually affiliated with. The promise and potential of this is invigorating and inspiring to say the least. With SOJ, Raxann is passionately trying to
create a stable financial platform of support for established and new
community building organizations on the island of Jamaica.
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| foto from SOJ website |
Please spread the word - and volunteer what you can in this movement, whether it be contact resources, donations - financial or goods, consultation services, field work in workshops, PR, or any other talent or tangible gesture you can offer!
There is great potential here for true
collaboration with visual and performing artists, writers, educators, entrepreneurs, tech specialists, etc,
and a host of community advocates in all fields to build up a nation of unspeakable talent, potential, and spirit.
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The next item - just to get this up - is: with the tsunami of protests racing around the globe, it was a matter of time before it hit the US shores. The Occupy Wall Street protest (sparked originally by Adbusters back in July [great magazine btw!]) is strong, expanding exponentially, and inspiring. It makes me think of a rant I put up last year (the e-Con Highway) during the midterm elections about the economic disparities in the world, and the vulgar division of wealth and poverty that glows blindingly on a daily basis - and created a good chunk of the messes we're all swimming in now. Naturally it makes me think of my countries Jamaica, and Sierra Leone - both of which (but SL even more so), are near breathlessly struggling to stay at the surface of this tank, let alone above it! So I had to share a post from a fellow blogger, which was written specifically from a Jamaican point of view about the London riots.
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| foto from Jamaican Till I Die blog |
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| foto by SeBiArt |
